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If you think providing for a child is not appropriate as a central focus of a parent's life, please take that into consideration before doing anything which mig
by WillAdams 2y ago
If you think providing for a child is not appropriate as a central focus of a parent's life, please take that into consideration before doing anything which might involve a child.
While politics are something I prefer not to discuss, I hope that every woman who has ever found herself in need of a tampon, and every person with a concern for how laws requiring that society investigate every reported miscarriage as a potential crime shows up to vote in the next election, and that that coalition then puts in place a legal framework which makes giving birth a free and uncoerced choice.
- fennecfoxy 2y agoUnfortunately that doesn't really help with the right for straight men to not be fathers. Obviously it's a difficult topic considering once the deed is done, it's done. But it does take two to tango.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoOne word: vasectomy. Freeze some sperm if you think you might want it later.
- fennecfoxy 2y agoI won't need any later; I'm gay. But yes, men do need more birth control options to both share in the responsibility for it as well as to empower them to proactively make a decision before it can be taken away from them.
- WillAdams 2y agoOr, one can make a conscious decision to only be sexually intimate with a person with whom one has a sufficient emotional connection that raising a child together is a reasonable premise.
- fennecfoxy 2y agoIsn't that a one-sided requirement, though?